Most Disturbing Moment In A Film

The August Underground series sort of has a story, in that it shows the mental and emotional decline of a group of serial killers (culminating in the actually rather riveting (not just for the gore) third film in the series, Penance). They don't follow on from one another, mind, so if you're looking for story, I'd skip straight to Penance.

And to be honest, as for Slaughtered Vomit Dolls and ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, there is more story in a blank notebook. Those two are really just mindless exploitation gone over the edge.
 
Rape scene from Scum, absolutely no contest. I avoid that film like the plague because of it. I was shaking during it and couldn't get it out of my head for months :o
 
Many of the violent scenes in Straw Dogs which was banned and then heavily censored at one time. Some of the scenes are pretty sickening. You need a strong stomach to watch this.

In recent times, The Cottage is another disturbing film with excessive violence.
 
Just seen the Michael Haneke movie "the Time of the Wolf." In it, a horse is shot with a rifle, then we get a close-up view of the horse's head, twitching eyes and all, while someone slits it's throat and the blood gushes out.

Watching it, it didn't disturb me that much. It's a film, it ain't real... only when I looked online to read the reviews, it WAS real?!
 
The majority of "disturbing moments" in this thread seem to be gore-type stuff, which doesn't really bother me as it's generally "just a film" with the makers deliberately trying to shock you with excess.

One non-gore scene I recall which made me think "omg" was when you see the little girl in the red coat (for the second time) in Schindler's List.
 
I personally think it looks like a great film. Just my cup of tea. :D
Unfortunately, the damned censors of this country will probably butcher it to death, that's if they don't outright ban it first. :mad:
 
Thanks. I was thinking about this scene a week or so ago, and couldn't remember the title of the film. I watched it back in 1980 or so when a teenager, and that scene is still memorable. Cheers, I think I'll go and make a bacon sandwich.
 
Is it wrong that I was slightly turned on by that?

Same film... the end scenes with her and her would be killer and what she does to his... er... *shivers thinking about it*
 
i just attempted to watch the tooth drilling scene on youtube... me being me was unable to watch the whole clip so switched it off aha

just the noise of the drill made me shudder... the thought of the drill going in and that cold feeling you get.... EGH!!!
 
So it was actually disproved? I know anecdotal things like that are notoriously hard to confirm either way, I'm just surprised as it was cited in Stephen Thrower's otherwise impressively comprehensive and researched book on Fulci.
 
Also the scene in Trainspotting when Ewan M's character is hallucinating and the baby that died of cot death (freaky already!) is crawling across the ceiling and is generally weird!
 
ok how about the ear-cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs? :eek::eek: I've seen the film 3 times now and each time this scene comes on I have to turn away and not watch it. :(

Also... the exploding heaRAB in Scanners :eek::eek::eek:

The autopsy scene in The Thing :eek:

... and the nail-popping hand in The Fury :eek::eek:

(Better stop... am putting myself off my dinner ;))
 
Hostel 2.

The scene with the toffee-nosed cannibal scarred me for life. With a big smile on his face and listening to classical music, the camera pans to the man he has tied to a table, the innarRAB to his legs on full show. The man is writhing in pain as the cannibal cuts more of his body tissue from his leg with a knife and fork, onto a plate, sits down to eat, enjoying the sight of the agony before him. A very well done scene.
 
Yep that whole film freaked me out. Would never watch it again.



Oh yes, that film really got to me.

Also the 'bite the kerb' in American History X - actually quite a few scenes from that aswell.

For me, one of the most disturbing has to be the rape at the end of Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry. It's really horrid, makes me cry.
 
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